I Quotes
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“If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.”
“If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural or anthropogenic) rather than living as if God or nature has given us a nice, orderly, calm, Babbit-like existence.”
“If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.”
“If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.”
“If we're living in a free country,we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else?”
“If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"”
“If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.”
“If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From
“If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.”
Source: The Goose Girl
“If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.”
“If we're not able to launch our own people and operate our own spacecraft anymore then, you know, space - whether it should be or not, it's seen as like a harbinger of technology. If you can fly people into space, if you can operate into space, then you've got high technology and if you're the leader of that, then you're the leader in technology. If we lose that on a more or less permanent basis, or for a long period of time, my fear is that it will creep into the national psyche in all areas and we as a nation as a whole will kind of be diminished.”
“If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.”
Source: The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self
“If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.”
Source: The Lightworkers Way: Awakening Your Spiritual Power to Know and Heal
“If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.”
“If we're not careful we spiritualize laziness.”
“If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.”
“If we're not counting kids' movies - because my kid is constantly watching The Jungle Book - I would have to say Wall Street.”
“If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.”
“If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.”
“If we're not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas - I have no problem with 35mm.”
“If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.”
“If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.”
“If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.”
“If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.”
“If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.”
“If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.”
“If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?”
“If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're all looking down on you, they don't care about you. They're just trying to help out their various special interest constituencies," that argument ends up being successful.”
“If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.”
“If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.”
“If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.”
“If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.”
Source: The Christmas Collection: The Christmas Shoes, The Christmas Blessing, and The Christmas Hope
“If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.”
Source: The Christmas Collection: The Christmas Shoes, The Christmas Blessing, and The Christmas Hope
“If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.”
“If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.”
“If we're serious about America's leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.”
“If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.”
“If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.”
“If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.”
“If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?”
“If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.”
“If we're successful in Iraq ... we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.”
“If we're talking about being skinny or losing weight, I don't have that problem; it's genetics.”
“If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.”
“If we're talking about healthcare lets talk about a healthy diet. If there is anything better in the world in dealing with a healthcare problem it's prevention! We CAN afford prevention!”
“If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.”
“If we're talking about Sinai, we can't understand it without the 1967 and 1973 wars, and you can't understand it without the biblical story of Moses leading his people through the wilderness. These are essential elements in the modern conversation about what's going on in the Middle East that seem to have been lost.”
“If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.”